So, I side with the Hamidon.
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Posted on: 2010-10-04 14:31 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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He looks more green than gold |
Originally Posted by Gulanzon
 My "Purge the world!" Supervillain. Observe how he is bathed in PURE WHITE FLAMES with golden hair, skin, and clothing! Ignore the Martial Arts touch, it was just the first thing that sprang to mind when I thought "Maniacal Chaotic Evil sorcerer dude." |
@Golden Girl
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Green, gold... eh, I'm Aussie. It's all good :P
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
He looks more green than gold
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I remember a very vague Dev warning about Heroes who rely too heavily on Hamidon influence in thier powers possibly encountering "problems".|
Originally Posted by Castle
When we were redesigning the Hamidon Event a while back, I jokingly advocated having a chance to confuse players in the event equal to the number of HO's they had ever slotted.
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Never knew quite what it meant. But not able to play in the magic hours when server raids happened, it wouldn't apply to me anyway.
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Interesting... Isn't that a large aspect of what humans value as evidence of their greatness? |
Originally Posted by DarkGob
Reshaping the world to fit his ideal? Yeah, that fits pretty soundly under the classic megalomaniacal behavior of a Villain. Although frankly, I would say that Hamidon at this point transcends mere villainy into some other category.
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Not that I disagree with the thought, mind you.
The basis for appointing villainy is often entirely a matter of perspective.
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Frankly, the idea of eradicating humanity to make way for Mother Nature smacks of the book "Oryx and Crake."
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...Just good luck using it as fertilizer for the Nu Green Utopia...
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Reshaping the world to fit his ideal? Yeah, that fits pretty soundly under the classic megalomaniacal behavior of a Villain. Although frankly, I would say that Hamidon at this point transcends mere villainy into some other category.
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Interesting... Isn't that a large aspect of what humans value as evidence of their greatness?
Not that I disagree with the thought, mind you. The basis for appointing villainy is often entirely a matter of perspective. |
Hamidon may have altered himself to where he has no moral choice left, ie, he has the morality of an army of fire ants or a swarm of locusts. I infer this due to the dearth of commentary on Cartesian Logic written by single-cell organisms.
Of course, this is all well and good, but I am really here for the fine supervillain rants containing "Fools!" I also note for the record that the preferred first response from a Hero upon hearing such a rant delivered should be "You're mad!"
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
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Do you have another screenshot showing the face and feet? |
Originally Posted by Gulanzon
Green, gold... eh, I'm Aussie. It's all good :P
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@Golden Girl
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Looks great. As for being green or gold, green works fine, given the Flora-favoring idiom you have chosen.|
Originally Posted by Gulanzon
My "Purge the world!" Supervillain. Observe how he is bathed in PURE WHITE FLAMES with golden hair, skin, and clothing! Ignore the Martial Arts touch, it was just the first thing that sprang to mind when I thought "Maniacal Chaotic Evil sorcerer dude." |
And may I be the first to congratulate you and affirm you by saying, "Of course, you know you're mad!"
"How do you know you are on the side of good?" a Paragon citizen asked him. "How can we even know what is 'good'?"
"The Most High has spoken, even with His own blood," Melancton replied. "Surely we know."
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, he said on the internet.
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Originally Posted by Gulanzon
Civilisation disappoints me.
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@Rylas
Kill 'em all. Let XP sort 'em out.
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You should keep me around to push back in between you and an oncoming critter so it will stop to eat me so you can escape.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I'll continue to fight on the side of the one being that actually makes sense to me: Me. If it's in my best interest to save you for later use then so be it.
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total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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it's been said many times, but i never have to be the fastest runner, i just have to be faster than you ;p|
Originally Posted by SwellGuy
You should keep me around to push back in between you and an oncoming critter so it will stop to eat me so you can escape.
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as much as i might feel for the plight of a maligned earthen entity whose right to recreate the planet in its' own image has been challenged over and over again, who simply seeks the solace of the silvaculture, i can only say:
screw you buddy. i've got pineapple and tangerine and i'm not afraid to fruit salad your jello'd butt.
Kittens give Morbo gas.
I've been with Hamidon since the time people we picking Resistance/Loyalist sides.
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*golfclap* Well played, sir or madam.
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Originally Posted by Rylas
, he said on the internet.
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no, we are simply one of the few species to eliminate most of our natural predators. Deer will breed till they eat all there is to eat and start to die off from starvation. Non-native species wipe out native species all the time. Humans are really only unique in that we are smart enough to defeat what would normally check our population.
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Originally Posted by Gulanzon
We're also the first creatures to have the organisational capacity and intellect to go about destroying what we're sitting on.
Let's see a chimpanzee invent a steamship. |
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Exactly. As humans, we should have learned by now, and some of us have. THere are those that are very short sighted, and barely see past their life, much less their children's and grand children's lives.
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Originally Posted by CommunistPenguin
no, we are simply one of the few species to eliminate most of our natural predators. Deer will breed till they eat all there is to eat and start to die off from starvation. Non-native species wipe out native species all the time. Humans are really only unique in that we are smart enough to defeat what would normally check our population.
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Same here.
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Originally Posted by GlassGoblin
See, that's what I've been waiting for ever since Hami-Os were introduced.
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humanity is part of nature
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As the song says, |
Originally Posted by Lycanus
humanity is part of nature
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You can not go against Nature
As that is a part of Nature to
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Okay, sorry, I'm not being clear...|
Originally Posted by CommunistPenguin
no, we are simply one of the few species to eliminate most of our natural predators. Deer will breed till they eat all there is to eat and start to die off from starvation. Non-native species wipe out native species all the time. Humans are really only unique in that we are smart enough to defeat what would normally check our population.
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In each and every example put forth of a destructive species, the scale of destruction is infinitesimal when measured against the whole planet, which is precisely what our destructive species is... well, destroying.
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I'm thinking more along the lines of this guy
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Originally Posted by beyeajus
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This guy loses a lot of his credibilty by the fact he's using his personal computer to post on an internet website dedicated to an online game.|
Originally Posted by Gulanzon
Yes, but we're the only greedy species with a global network. Ants are small. Lemmings don't trade.
Locust swarms might well be an anthropogenic problem due to our farming practices. etc, etc. You addressed that we are not the only wildly destructive creatures on the planet, but you avoided the issue of our capability to organise ourselves on a massive scale, and create multiple interacting communities on vast and varying scales. Too much? Ouch, that's harsh. I don't think t boils down to what sort of a mentality I have. If you'll read back to my opening post: I see nature running wild outside Praetoria, and it fills me with peace. I think it's beautiful. Civilisation disappoints me. Of course there is a middle ground: the human race needn't be eradicated. Perhaps we should all just get sent back to the stone age, when we were too fragmented to pose such a large-scale threat to the planet. Unfortunately we as a species would almost certainly recover Unless you're half-in game mode too, I'm not exactly advocating ecoterrorism in the real world. Just to clarify. |
If he's being 'in charictor'... interesting viewpoint. If he's really trying to convince us this is his view of the world... sorry... go live under a tree somewhere or I don't buy it.
I gotta make pain. I gotta make things right. I gotta stop what's comin'. 'Least I gotta try.
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For someone who loves the earth you really don't give it much credit. The reports of the earth's death are greatly exaggerated
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Originally Posted by Gulanzon
Okay, sorry, I'm not being clear...
In each and every example put forth of a destructive species, the scale of destruction is infinitesimal when measured against the whole planet, which is precisely what our destructive species is... well, destroying. |
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Do the Talos stores still stock Hami-Os cereal on the shelf? They were there a few years ago. Never could muster the courage to buy some.
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Originally Posted by Obscure Blade
I've made jokes about Hamidon Origin enhancements; "Hami-Os! The cereal that eats you back!"
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That would have been interesting with blue mito chain lightning.
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Originally Posted by Castle
When we were redesigning the Hamidon Event a while back, I jokingly advocated having a chance to confuse players in the event equal to the number of HO's they had ever slotted.
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